In the past, acute kidney injury (AKI) used to be called acute renal failure or insufficiency. Among the most common causes of acute renal failure is so-called prerenal azotemia, which occurs when renal perfusion is inadequate or compromised, leading to a transient elevation of serum creatinine level. This can happen as a result of reduced…
Dr. Kalantar-Zadeh: Patients with Ebola deserve to be offered renal replacement therapy, even if odds of survival are slim.
Would any heterogeneity in the choice of additional services be unethical or implausible?
Many patients still insist that I need to check and manage their cholesterol.
This higher level of dialysis care in Canada is partly owed to substantially higher reimbursement fees for nephrologists.
Over the past 10 years the annual ESRD incidence rate per million U.S. population has remained stagnant or even shown sporadic downward trends.
In the nephrology community, there have been heightened discussions and apparent enthusiasm about the revival of PD as the prototype for home dialysis.
Almost half a million Americans depend on chronic dialysis therapy to survive.
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Historically, foamy urine is considered a warning sign for probable kidney disease.
